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Kentico Xperience CVE-2026-105046

| EUVDEUVD-2026-91832 MEDIUM
Direct Request ('Forced Browsing') (CWE-425)
2026-10-02 mitre GHSA-43vg-7p43-j62w
4.3
CVSS 3.1 · Vendor: mitre
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Attack ChainAIDerived

Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain

  1. Access
    Authenticate to admin API as low-privilege user
  2. Exploit
    Enumerate/guess object identifiers
  3. Execution
    Send direct request to protected endpoint
  4. Impact
    Receive unauthorized object data (disclosure)

Vulnerability Assessment

Weakness
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V8 - Authorization Direct request prevention
Exploitation Conditions

Exploitation requires an authenticated session to the Kentico Xperience 13 administration API with at least low-privilege access (CVSS PR:L), and an affected version prior to 13.0.216. The specific condition is that the administration API endpoints perform no object-level (per-object) authorization check, so any authenticated admin user can request objects owned by or scoped to other users. Limiting factors: valid administration credentials are mandatory (no anonymous/unauthenticated path per PR:L), the impact is confined to information disclosure (C:L, I:N, A:N - no data modification or availability effect), and installations patched to 13.0.216 or later are not affected.

Impact

This is a moderate-severity, low-real-risk issue by current signals. The provided CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N, base 4.3) indicates a network-reachable but privilege-requiring (PR:L) flaw with confidentiality-only impact (C:L, I:N, A:N) - consistent with a broken object-level authorization (BOLA/IDOR-style) weakness, CWE-425, that lets an already-authenticated low-privilege administration user read objects they should not. No EPSS score, no CISA KEV listing, and no POC are present in the input, so there is no evidence of active or probable exploitation. The main mitigating factor is PR:L: an attacker must already hold valid (if low-privilege) credentials to the administration API, which limits this to insider or post-compromise scenarios rather than mass internet-facing exploitation. Note the KEV/EPSS/POC fields are simply absent rather than conflicting, so no signals contradict each other; the picture is internally consistent - a genuine but low-urgency authorization gap. Patch availability from the vendor makes remediation straightforward and argues for routine, not emergency, prioritization.

Exploit ScenarioDerived

A low-privilege authenticated user of the Kentico Xperience 13 administration interface sends direct requests to administration API endpoints referencing object identifiers belonging to other users or sections. Because object-level authorization checks are missing, the endpoint returns data the user is not authorized to view, resulting in disclosure of sensitive administrative information. No public exploit code is identified at time of analysis, and the network attack vector with low complexity makes the requests trivial to craft once credentials are held.

This Month Plan within 30 days. Why: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9).
Patch available 0.2% exploitation probability (EPSS)

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AnalysisAIv1 – Oct 02, 2026

Information disclosure in the Kentico Xperience 13 administration API (all releases before 13.0.216) allows any authenticated administrator to read objects that belong to, or are scoped to, other users because the API endpoints perform no per-object authorization check. The issue is rated only CVSS 4.3 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N), meaning a valid low-privilege admin session is mandatory and the impact is confined to reading data - there is no modification, deletion, or availability effect and no anonymous exploitation path. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, and the vendor has released hotfix 13.0.216.

RemediationAI

Apply the vendor-released hotfix: upgrade Kentico Xperience 13 to version 13.0.216 or later, available from https://devnet.kentico.com/download/hotfixes, and verify the deployed version after upgrading since the fix is a version-bound hotfix rather than a separate security product. If the hotfix cannot be applied immediately, the practical compensating controls are to restrict network access to the administration API endpoints (for example by placing the admin interface behind a VPN, IP allowlist, or reverse-proxy rule) - with the trade-off that remote or third-party admin clients and integrations will lose connectivity until the restriction is lifted - and to reduce the number of accounts holding administrative API access so the set of principals able to enumerate other users' objects is as small as possible. Logging and monitoring of admin API calls for unusual object-identifier enumeration can help detect abuse, but it does not prevent it, and 13.0.216 remains the only complete fix given that the vulnerable code path lacks the authorization check entirely.

Affected VersionsENISA

Xperience 13.0.0 <13.0.216

Affected Packages

euvd xperience fix: 13.0.216

Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)

Affects your stack

Affects 1 package in euvd

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Technical ContextAI · show details

The root cause is CWE-425 (Direct Request, commonly described as 'forced browsing'), which in this case manifests as a missing object-level authorization check on Kentico Xperience 13 administration API endpoints: the API validates that the caller is an authenticated administrator but never verifies that the caller is permitted to access the specific object being requested. This is the classic broken-object-level-authorization pattern (often referred to as IDOR), where object identifiers supplied by an authenticated user are honored without an ownership or scope check, so one administrator can retrieve records belonging to or scoped to another administrator. Kentico Xperience 13 is the .NET-based digital experience platform (CMS) covered by the wildcarded CPE cpe:2.3:a:kentico:xperience:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, i.e. the version-less CPE confirms the product stream rather than a single frozen build, which is why the affected set must be determined by version comparison against the 13.0.216 fix boundary. Because the flaw is purely an authorization gap on read operations, exploitation yields only information exposure (C:L) with no integrity or availability impact, and the CVSS vector's PR:L confirms that authentication with at least low privileges is a hard prerequisite.

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Severity by source

Vendor (mitre) PRIMARY 4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
vuln.today AI 4.3 MEDIUM

Network-reachable admin API with low complexity but requiring a low-privilege authenticated account (PR:L); missing object-level checks expose data only, so C:L and I:N/A:N.

3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
4.0 AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Primary rating from Vendor (mitre).

CVSS VectorVendor: mitre

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
None

DescriptionCVE.org

Kentico Xperience 13 before 13.0.216 lacks object-level authorization checks for administration API endpoints.

Threat Intelligence Overview

EPSS Score
0.2%
Top 94% exploitable
Prevalence
Medium
commercial .NET DXP/CMS used by enterprises, not ubiquitous
Data Quality
4 sources
Confidence: Medium

How this decision was reached

The engine reads each signal below and applies a fixed list of rules from top to bottom. The first rule that matches sets the recommended action – like a statement, every line is shown.

SignalValue
Severity MEDIUM
CISA KEV No
Public POC No
EPSS 0.2%
Patch available Yes
Active threat No
Deciding rule
MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9)
What every action level means
Emergency Immediate action required. Criteria: CRITICAL + in CISA KEV (actively exploited) without patch, OR CRITICAL + EPSS > 30% without patch, OR CRITICAL + active threat signals without patch.
Act Now Prioritize within 24-48h. Criteria: in KEV with patch available, OR CRITICAL + public POC, OR HIGH + EPSS > 10%, OR CRITICAL + active threat, OR any CRITICAL severity.
This Week Schedule remediation this week. Criteria: HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9). Patch within normal change window.
This Month Plan within 30 days. Criteria: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9), lower exploitation probability. Include in regular patch cycle.
Monitor Track and reassess. Criteria: LOW severity (CVSS 0.1-3.9), minimal exploitation risk. No immediate action needed.

SSVC AssessmentENISA

SSVC Decision· derived
Scheduled
Exploitation
None
System Exposure· derived
Open
Automatable
No
Human Impact· derived
Medium
Technical Impact
Partial

Priority Score

22
Low Medium High Critical
KEV: 0
EPSS: 0
CVSS: +22
PoC: 0
Weaponized: 0
Threat intel: 0
Gov advisory: 0

Attack Technique

Information disclosure occurs when an application unintentionally exposes sensitive data that aids attackers in reconnaissance or directly compromises security.

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